this flim is 100 flams old

Post by **dng** » Tue Mar 16, 2021 1:25 pm

This advert for cadburys is 100 years old. And 8 minutes long

https://accumulationofthings.com/100/20 ... unny-1921/

Post by **vom** » Tue Mar 16, 2021 2:20 pm

excellent

I love industrial processes also

Post by **dng** » Tue Mar 16, 2021 2:27 pm

hooray for industry (on film only)

Post by **blombluss** » Tue Mar 16, 2021 2:59 pm

Most interestin'!

Eat Cadbury's drugged chocolates, and you too can experience a slightly creepy rabbit, a punt ride, and crate loading.

8/10.

Post by **dng** » Fri Apr 30, 2021 2:31 pm

A Woman Undressing (1896)

https://accumulationofthings.com/100/20 ... sing-1896/

britais oldest erotic film, apparently

Post by **dng** » Fri Apr 30, 2021 2:31 pm

contains no actual erotic content

Post by **dng** » Fri Apr 30, 2021 2:35 pm

but lots and lots of clothes

Post by **blombluss** » Fri Apr 30, 2021 2:36 pm

"5. When obviously it should have been this"

:O :O :O

David!!!

Post by **dng** » Fri Apr 30, 2021 2:38 pm

oh no what have i done

Post by **blombluss** » Fri Apr 30, 2021 2:39 pm

sesy music!

Post by **dng** » Fri Apr 30, 2021 2:40 pm

Homfrus has become dangerously aroused

Post by **blombluss** » Fri Apr 30, 2021 2:42 pm

On the still-frame image on the BFI site, she looks like she's got a headache. Or as you mentioned, she's sighing at the end.

Post by **blombluss** » Fri Apr 30, 2021 2:44 pm

dng wrote: Fri Apr 30, 2021 2:40 pm Homfrus has become dangerously aroused

I hear that so often when walking down the street...

Post by **dng** » Wed Jun 30, 2021 6:54 pm

The Haunted Hotel (1907) and Hotel Electrique (1908)

https://accumulationofthings.com/100/20 ... ique-1908/

stop motion goodness

Post by **blombluss** » Wed Jun 30, 2021 7:53 pm

The Haunted Hotel - excellent! The climax in particular! Cor!

I haven't watched Hôtel Électrique yet.

Post by **dng** » Wed Jun 30, 2021 7:54 pm

It's good but the version of it on youtube is fucking terrible quality irritatingly

Post by **dng** » Wed Jun 30, 2021 7:55 pm

Also yes the end of the haunted hotel is incredible. hooray for old films, special effects, silence

Post by **Chortle Hound** » Wed Jun 30, 2021 9:45 pm

Is this any better? On phone I can't really tell.

https://archive.org/details/ElHotelElectrico

Post by **dng** » Wed Jun 30, 2021 9:59 pm

It's about the same i think. Except with a spanish titlecard, which was quite exciting.

The problem with old silent films is a combination of old terrible film being transferred to old terrible video being transferred to old terrible internet video means everything becomes a hellish conglomerate of a trillion different types of compression artefects, and by the time you try and watch it on some 80th iteration on youtube half of everyones faces have been erased and its impossible to see what anything is at all

Post by **dng** » Wed Jun 30, 2021 9:59 pm

but thank you also. i awlays forget to look on archive.org, because i'm a bit lazy really

Post by **dng** » Wed Jun 30, 2021 9:59 pm

don't tell anyone

Post by **blombluss** » Thu Jul 01, 2021 7:43 pm

I have now watched Hôtel Électrique. It's good, but I prefer The Haunted Hotel, mostly due to better ending.

Post by **dng** » Thu Jul 01, 2021 8:04 pm

The best bit of hotel electrique is definitely the hair brushing scene

Post by **blombluss** » Fri Jul 02, 2021 1:11 am

I'd agree with that, I think.

Post by **dng** » Fri Jul 02, 2021 1:39 am

I wish I was a haunted hairbrush

Post by **richschnauzer** » Sun Jul 04, 2021 11:52 am

Post by **dng** » Sun Jul 04, 2021 11:58 am

hooray

Post by **endar** » Sun Jul 04, 2021 1:50 pm

Shiny

Post by **blombluss** » Mon Jul 05, 2021 12:05 am

When the films of Louise Brooks hit the 100 year old mark, I daresay I might post a photo or two of her for... er... no reason whatsoever... (Be still, my beating heart)

An Unicorn · Post by **An Unicorn** » Thu Jul 08, 2021 3:27 am

♪ Pictures of Louise / help me sleep at night...♪

Post by **dng** » Sun Oct 31, 2021 4:52 pm

Waves. Old Waves

https://accumulationofthings.com/100/20 ... 1895-1902/

Post by **blombluss** » Mon Nov 01, 2021 1:55 am

Excellent! And your notes made me chuckle.

Which are the bets type of article notes.

Post by **dng** » Mon Nov 01, 2021 3:15 am

hooray. thank you

Post by **dng** » Tue Nov 30, 2021 3:42 pm

The Butcher Boy (Buster Keaton's first film)

https://accumulationofthings.com/100/20 ... -boy-1917/

Post by **vom** » Tue Nov 30, 2021 3:50 pm

hell yeah Luke

Post by **vom** » Tue Nov 30, 2021 4:15 pm

are you going to watch them all in order?

Post by **dng** » Tue Nov 30, 2021 4:17 pm

i am i think

Post by **dng** » Tue Nov 30, 2021 4:17 pm

i've not got anything better to do

Post by **dng** » Tue Nov 30, 2021 4:17 pm

and then i might buy the general and try and sync it up with my haiku salut soundtrack cd

Post by **vom** » Tue Nov 30, 2021 4:20 pm

there's a few of the Fatty Arbuckle ones that I haven't seen yet so I might use this as motivation to watch them too

Post by **dng** » Tue Nov 30, 2021 4:23 pm

hooray

Post by **dng** » Tue Nov 30, 2021 4:25 pm

There's 32 films in this boxset. I don't know how long it takes before poor old fatty arbuckle is superseded by buster keaton, but i assume it didn't take long

Post by **dng** » Tue Nov 30, 2021 4:25 pm

due to buster keaton being the most beautiful man in the world

Post by **dng** » Tue Nov 30, 2021 4:25 pm

Of course it should have been luke the dog that always got top billing and yet he probably didn't even get paid

Post by **vom** » Tue Nov 30, 2021 4:31 pm

looks like the first 13 are Arbuckles and presumably after that he was blacklisted forever. weep.

I ended up skipping forward to the Keaton ones because some of the Arbuckle ones are Not Very Good. but at least one of the ones that I watched is really great (NO SPOILERS ON WHICH ONE) and features Buster Keaton doing Facial Expressions

also I think I've only seen five or six of them

Post by **blombluss** » Wed Dec 01, 2021 1:41 am

dng wrote: Tue Nov 30, 2021 3:42 pm The Butcher Boy (Buster Keaton's first film)

https://accumulationofthings.com/100/20 ... -boy-1917/

Jolly good, Sir!

Post by **dng** » Wed Dec 01, 2021 3:46 pm

Buster Keaton/Fatty Arbuckle #2: The Rough House (1917)

https://accumulationofthings.com/100/20 ... ouse-1917/

Post by **vom** » Wed Dec 01, 2021 5:01 pm

I had similar thoughts on this one and also praised the potato chopping scene!

Post by **dng** » Wed Dec 01, 2021 7:47 pm

Hooray

Post by **blombluss** » Thu Dec 02, 2021 1:57 am

Huzzah for both reviews! Also: that overhead face kick - lordy!